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How popular is “Maxwell” in the USA?

Number of people named “Maxwell” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Maxwell” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Maxwell” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Maxwell” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Maxwell” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Maxwell” by birth year

This chart shows how “Maxwell” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 9 0.000044669 9 -100%
1882 6 0.000027084 6 -100%
1883 10 0.000046094 10 -100%
1884 8 0.000032859 8 -100%
1885 8 0.000033215 8 -100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 -100%
1887 7 0.000028295 7 -100%
1888 7 0.000023374 7 -100%
1889 11 0.000038069 11 -100%
1890 15 0.000049768 15 -100%
1891 7 0.000024418 7 -100%
1892 10 0.000029907 10 -100%
1893 13 0.000039973 13 -100%
1894 8 0.00002362 8 -100%
1895 13 0.000037035 13 -100%
1896 16 0.000044757 16 -100%
1897 21 0.000060526 21 -100%
1898 16 0.000041945 16 -100%
1899 12 0.000035374 12 -100%
1900 22 0.000048861 22 -100%
1901 18 0.000052051 18 -100%
1902 26 0.00006723 26 -100%
1903 17 0.000044596 17 -100%
1904 17 0.000042133 17 -100%
1905 23 0.000054255 23 -100%
1906 29 0.000067686 29 -100%
1907 22 0.000047272 22 -100%
1908 27 0.000055254 27 -100%
1909 29 0.000056727 29 -100%
1910 41 0.000069408 41 -100%
1911 49 0.000076054 49 -100%
1912 113 0.000114365 113 -100%
1913 121 0.00010641 121 -100%
1914 132 0.000093198 132 -100%
1915 176 0.000096048 176 -100%
1916 147 0.000075992 147 -100%
1917 155 0.000077239 8 147 -90%
1918 150 0.000069089 150 -100%
1919 134 0.0000635 134 -100%
1920 120 0.000053035 120 -100%
1921 109 0.000046691 109 -100%
1922 142 0.000062032 142 -100%
1923 124 0.000053855 124 -100%
1924 117 0.000049126 117 -100%
1925 113 0.000048429 113 -100%
1926 87 0.000037894 87 -100%
1927 103 0.000044409 103 -100%
1928 116 0.000051306 116 -100%
1929 127 0.000057934 127 -100%
1930 98 0.000044079 98 -100%
1931 84 0.000039917 84 -100%
1932 89 0.000042154 89 -100%
1933 68 0.000034009 68 -100%
1934 68 0.000032742 68 -100%
1935 75 0.000035887 75 -100%
1936 59 0.000028398 59 -100%
1937 53 0.000024875 53 -100%
1938 74 0.000033445 74 -100%
1939 69 0.000031315 69 -100%
1940 59 0.000025622 59 -100%
1941 65 0.000026678 65 -100%
1942 64 0.000023428 64 -100%
1943 66 0.000023383 66 -100%
1944 69 0.00002565 69 -100%
1945 52 0.000019601 52 -100%
1946 82 0.000025663 82 -100%
1947 66 0.000018322 66 -100%
1948 59 0.000017089 59 -100%
1949 60 0.000017218 60 -100%
1950 63 0.000017983 63 -100%
1951 65 0.000017645 65 -100%
1952 73 0.000019221 73 -100%
1953 66 0.000017127 66 -100%
1954 78 0.000019595 78 -100%
1955 90 0.000022415 90 -100%
1956 82 0.000019888 82 -100%
1957 66 0.000015706 66 -100%
1958 59 0.000014272 59 -100%
1959 81 0.000019481 81 -100%
1960 59 0.000014204 59 -100%
1961 54 0.000013036 54 -100%
1962 58 0.000014373 58 -100%
1963 64 0.000016169 64 -100%
1964 61 0.000015691 61 -100%
1965 65 0.000017929 65 -100%
1966 64 0.000018414 64 -100%
1967 57 0.00001679 57 -100%
1968 71 0.000021016 71 -100%
1969 79 0.000022732 79 -100%
1970 71 0.000019687 71 -100%
1971 56 0.000016315 56 -100%
1972 74 0.000023544 74 -100%
1973 94 0.000031158 94 -100%
1974 86 0.000028289 86 -100%
1975 102 0.000033782 102 -100%
1976 96 0.000031638 96 -100%
1977 122 0.000038407 122 -100%
1978 117 0.000036864 117 -100%
1979 150 0.000045086 150 -100%
1980 189 0.00005487 189 -100%
1981 209 0.000060416 209 -100%
1982 191 0.000054448 191 -100%
1983 220 0.000063523 220 -100%
1984 299 0.000085704 299 -100%
1985 467 0.000130845 467 -100%
1986 608 0.000170927 608 -100%
1987 1025 0.000284279 8 1017 -98%
1988 1219 0.000329901 11 1208 -98%
1989 1405 0.000365462 5 1400 -99%
1990 1632 0.000412906 7 1625 -99%
1991 1729 0.000443872 5 1724 -99%
1992 1876 0.00048838 1876 -100%
1993 1789 0.000474501 8 1781 -99%
1994 1727 0.00046454 8 1719 -99%
1995 1842 0.000502983 5 1837 -99%
1996 1906 0.000522593 5 1901 -99%
1997 2317 0.00063904 2317 -100%
1998 2799 0.000760969 8 2791 -99%
1999 3338 0.00090366 3338 -100%
2000 3371 0.000891822 7 3364 -100%
2001 3190 0.000852169 7 3183 -100%
2002 3042 0.000813741 6 3036 -100%
2003 3094 0.000813714 8 3086 -99%
2004 2942 0.000769971 15 2927 -99%
2005 2810 0.000730849 2810 -100%
2006 2797 0.000706994 5 2792 -100%
2007 2719 0.000680144 6 2713 -100%
2008 3063 0.000779257 5 3058 -100%
2009 3080 0.000806246 3080 -100%
2010 3020 0.000817157 5 3015 -100%
2011 3055 0.000835203 3055 -100%
2012 3241 0.000886157 8 3233 -100%
2013 3669 0.0010064 26 3643 -99%
2014 3773 0.001017976 34 3739 -98%
2015 3593 0.000970842 40 3553 -98%
2016 3644 0.000993268 60 3584 -97%
2017 3147 0.000879986 66 3081 -96%
2018 2967 0.000843881 61 2906 -96%
2019 2693 0.000775872 56 2637 -96%
2020 2567 0.00076843 54 2513 -96%
2021 2429 0.000716953 49 2380 -96%
2022 2235 0.00066063 52 2183 -95%
2023 2036 0.000614884 44 1992 -96%
2024 2049 0.000615592 28 2021 -97%

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